AMATRICE, Italy, Aug 25 - The death toll from a devastating earthquake in central Italy rose sharply to almost 250 people early on Thursday after rescue teams worked through the night to try to find survivors under the rubble of flattened towns.

Rescue teams were working through the night to try to find survivors under the rubble that remained of central Italian towns flattened by an earthquake that hit in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least 159 people.

Teenage goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma produced a last-gasp stop to save AC Milan's blushes in a scoreless draw with relegation-haunted Carpi that compounded the Serie A giants' Europa League hopes on Thursday.

A Paulo Dybala brace kept Juventus' title push on track but Francesco Totti stole the show in Serie A with two goals in a 3-2 win over Torino that moved Roma closer to Champions League qualification on Wednesday.

Former German striker Karl-Heinz Riedle arrived in Vietnam on Thursday as a representative of Borussia Dortmund to discuss the chance for the club to establish a football academy in the Southeast Asian nation.

A hat-trick by Croatia striker Nikola Kalinic inspired Fiorentina to a stunning 4-1 win at the San Siro that ended Inter Milan's 100 per cent start to the campaign and sent La Viola top of Serie A for the first time in 16 years on Sunday.